12-acre horse farm in MetroWest lists for $1.9m

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The Carlisle property is a working farm, with horse stalls leased to boarded horses and a workers.

By Regina Cole

July 16, 2026 | 7:00 AM

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Buyers with a farming fantasy will wish to learn about Little Brook Farm. The 12.6-acre equestrian property in Carlisle has the sought-after options of nation dwelling: rural tranquility amid gently rolling pastures, an up to date farmhouse that mixes traditional architectural particulars with trendy comforts, and a custom-designed barn. Plus, there are horses.

“This is a very special property. The owners have spent many years making it into their dream home,” mentioned Rory Fivek, who has listed Little Brook Farm at 225 Lowell St. in Carlisle for $1,995,000.

“It offers peace, privacy, and timeless New England charm. It is also a working farm, with horse stalls leased for boarded horses and a staff to help manage the business,” she mentioned.

She explains that whereas the zoning is residential, the property’s use as a working horse steady is allowed, and, when the farm adjustments arms, the workers is ready to keep of their positions, if wanted.

“There is a barn manager and a number of boarders who work … part time,” Fivek defined.

There can be subdivision potential. While a few of the 12+ acres consists of wetlands, Carlisle’s two-acre zoning would enable an proprietor to separate off not less than two buildable heaps.

The home, inbuilt 1966, measures 4,646 sq. toes. It has 4 bedrooms, three and a half bogs, a front room with a hearth, and a spacious chef’s kitchen outfitted with a six-burner Wolf vary set into a big island, soapstone and butcher-block counter tops, quarry tile flooring, a Kitchen Aid double convection wall oven, a farmhouse sink, and a eating space. Other rooms embody a proper eating room, a house workplace, walk-in closets, and a big entry-mudroom with built-in storage and seating. A screened porch stretches throughout the rear of the home, roomy sufficient to offer snug gathering and eating areas. 

Just outdoors the kitchen door, a fenced vegetable backyard and a small orchard grows contemporary produce.

The barn has six horse stalls, a tack room, hay storage, and wash and groom areas. Outdoor equestrian amenities embody eight fenced split-rail paddocks, a using ring, an oval observe, and tools cupboard space. The paddocks have a function that, in chilly New England winters, is particularly valuable: year-round working water with frost-free hydrants that hook up with a water line beneath 4 toes, which is the frost line. 

Beyond Little Brook Farm’s beneficiant acreage, there’s direct entry to miles of conservation trails that present a scenic alternative using, climbing, or mountain biking.

“There are several miles of trails in the Conant Land preserve, as well as private conservation land bordering this property,” Fivek mentioned. “You can ride the 1.1 miles on Old Morse Road down to Great Brook State Park, where there are 20 miles of trails, or branch off to the Cranberry Bog where there are another 4 or 5 miles of trails.”

Kim Patenaude and Rory Fivek Group of Barrett Sotheby’s International Realty in Concord has the itemizing.

Regina Cole writes about structure and design for nationwide and regional publications, with a specialty in historic structure and the historical past of the ornamental arts.